Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Suppose a blind man asked you, “What is a crimson like?” You might answer, “It’s like a blare of trumpets.” And the simile is reversible, for you could tell a deaf man that a blare of trumpets is like a crimson banner. It’s worth our while to consider this characteristic of metaphors and similes because[…]
‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me so I send you’ (Jn. 20:21). ⧾ The text of the Gospel brings us back to Easter Sunday, evening of the day Jesus rose from the dead, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were[…]
In a case recently decided in favour of a tanning salon – of all things – filed by owner James Mainer against the strictures of an ever-more Stalinesque state, in this case, Illinois, and Governor Stritzker’s lockdown, Mark Steyn points out the significance of the Judge Michael D. McHaney’s sane decision in an insane world.[…]
At the suggestion of a reader, here is Mozart’s Laudate Dominum, a version of the briefest of the Psalms, 117/118, from his 1780 ‘Vespers for a Confessor’, that is, a saint who struggled mightily for the Faith, but was not a martyr, a dedication written by a hand other than the composer’s. But the music[…]
Few composers have lived and nonetheless thrived in such a turbulent era as William Byrd. Born sometime between 1539 and 1543, Byrd grew up in newly Protestant England, Henry VIII having passed the Act of Supremacy in 1534, which completed the separation of the English Church (later becoming known as Anglicanism) from the Roman Catholic[…]
A nation that kills its own children has no future. St. John Paul II In 2008, the late Father Alphonse deValk, founding editor of Catholic Insight, wrote an important editorial that diagnosed Canada’s deepening moral malaise and strongly criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper for refusing to reopen a national debate on abortion. He began by[…]
St. John Chrysostom wrote: “When Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.” St. Augustine taught that “the angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.” The entire company of angels must be weeping with unrestrained sorrow at this time[…]
A happy Victoria Day to all our readers! Some have dubbed this ‘May 2-4’, I suppose since it often falls somewhat close to the 24th of May – the birthday of Queen Victoria. Hence, by royal decree, this day is always the Monday prior to the 25th of May, which is sometimes the Queen’s birthday.[…]
On this May 18th, as we celebrate the first Pontiff with the name of the beloved disciple – and more on him in a moment – for we also celebrate what would have been Pope Saint John Paul II’s 100th birthday, which would be old even for the oldest of Popes. Benedict, the XVI, who[…]
“It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.” (John 15:16) A non-practicing Jewish woman, the primary caregiver for her elderly mother and disabled sister asked, “where is God in this pandemic?” This wasn’t the first time[…]
